October 2022

MIDWEST CITY – A repeat trip to the Class 5A State Fast-Pitch Softball State Championships will have to come through the consolation bracket as El Reno High School suffered an 11-1 loss to Carl Albert.

While giving up a noticeable height difference across the net, El Reno High School’s volleyball team rode a series of unforced errors by Del City to a 3-0 win over the Eagles.

Last week’s 41-40 win over Noble came with a season-high 423 yards of total offense which put El Reno High School’s football team over the 1,000-yard mark for the season.  

El Reno’s junior high football teams returned to Memorial Stadium last week after a two-week road swing to split a Suburban Conference doubleheader with Guthrie. The seventh-grade team lost 36-32 despite a 65-yard kickoff return and a 30-yard run, both for touchdowns, by Leo Willis.

Redlands Community College’s golf team has been on a stellar roll after taking second place at the recent Oklahoma Baptist University Fall Invitational. Playing the 5,803-yard Shawnee Country Club Course, Redlands carded a 36-hole total of 636 (313/323) to finish 13 shots back of the host school.

Avenging an earlier one-goal loss to the Bucks, Redlands Community College’s soccer team earned its first road win of the season with a 3-0 shutout of the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain.

El Reno High School held its annual All Sports Homecoming last week which included a parade through downtown with the theme “Game On” and royalty coronation before the game with Noble. The EHS football team came through for the local crowd with a thrilling 41-40 homecoming win over Noble.

El Reno attorney David Halley will be the county’s next special judge. Canadian County District Judges Paul Hesse and Jack McCurdy and Special Judge/District Judge-Elect Khristan Strubhar made the announcement of Halley’s selection Sept. 28.

A detention officer was fired after an investigation found she had allegedly stolen $570 in cash from two inmates at the Canadian County Jail. Katie Denise Wade, 32, of Moore, was charged Sept. 27 in Canadian County District Court with embezzlement of state property.